President Barack Obama last week announced that future offshore exploration leases in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and off the Atlantic coast would not be part of the Inte...
While debate continues over an extension of Bush-era tax cuts, other ideas in a proposed White House compromise deal are designed to help stimulate economic growth. More...
It wasn’t easy for the co-chairmen of President Obama’s fiscal commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, to win support from most of the panel’s 18 members last week ...
Saxonburg Borough Council made a difficult decision last Thursday in opting to eliminate one of the borough’s two full-time police positions, effective Dec. 31, in order...
WASHINGTON — This was a sad time for many of us watching Charlie Rangel receive the censure of his colleagues in the House of Representatives — not because of our disagr...
The new community service group Concerned Citizens of Butler could have chosen to stay focused only on issues related to the city’s landlords and rental properties, sinc...
All the hoopla about whether WikiLeaks has harmed U.S. foreign policy has missed the most stunning lesson of this drama.
We now know that, in the age of the Internet, tw...
The game has become all too familiar.
North Korea commits a provocative act, talks ensue, and the North makes a series of promises in exchange for aid. Aid deliveries co...
NEW YORK — Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans moreover have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of op...
